October is going to be a busy month with Modiphius as we look to the final frontier with Star Trek Playtesting and make our way to Essen Spiel ’16!

STAR TREK ADVENTURES

Playtesting

Sign-ups for playtesting will be online on our website from Thursday 13th October – you can either sign up on our website or at our stand at Essen (Hall 2, Booth A127). The first playtest adventures are currently being written and pending approval should then be out for groups in the coming weeks!

Sign up at Essen and receive a Kirk or Picard miniature!

BOOTH #2-A127

Here’s how play testing will work:

If you sign up as a PLAYER without a group then you’ll be given our playtest rules to look over, inviting you to give feedback on them through our forms online. You’ll be updated as the play testing groups are, with new rules and all the tweaks and changes as we go! There will also be discussions on our forums about finding a group to play with and rules.

If you sign up as a Games Master with a group of players to test with then we’ll give you scenarios to test different aspects of the rules with an online feedback system.

Games Masters will also be able to select one of four starships they would like to adventure as! Each starship has its own unique missions that come together and interact with each other in something we’re calling a “Living Playtest”.

U.S.S Lexington – A Constitution class starship, like the original U.S.S Enterprise.

U.S.S Venture – A galaxy class vessel, like the U.S.S Enterprise – D, will have more of a cultural stance to its missions with some exploration and combat.

U.S.S Thunderchild – An Akira class starship whose missions will be mostly tactical in nature, testing the combat rules, as well as exploration.

U.S.S Bellerophon – An Intrepid class starship that will focus on science and exploration alongside conflict.

ESSEN SPIEL 2016

We’ll be making our way to Germany for Essen Spiel 2016 from 13th to 16th October and we hope we’ll see you at our stand – we’re in Hall 2, Booth A127! We’d also love your help, so if you are there and would like to help us out on the stand in exchange for some credit on our web-store then hit reply and let us know!

Game Demonstrators – we’re looking for people who know ours games: Thunderbirds Co-operative Board Game and Airfix Battles. We’d like you to demonstrate those games on our stand to convention goers who are interested in those games but don’t know the rules yet.

Stand Assistants – we’re also on the look out for assistants for the stand, either helping sell our products or taking e-mail sign ups.

Anyone helping out for a 3 hour session will get €20 credit on the stand or web-store!

MODIPHIUS ENTERTAINMENT Essen Spiel Community Party

We’ll be hosting a Community Party for all our backers, gamers and fans at Motel One, Kennedyplatz 3 45127 Essen on Saturday 15th October from 8pm.

There are free drinks, awesome announcements and even a chance to play our newly released Thunderbirds expansion: The Hood with game designer Matt Leacock playing the illusive villain! There’ll also be prototypes of Kung Fu Panda and Siege of the Citadel to try out and play test with our in-house designers!

Chris Birch, our publishing director, will be giving you a behind-the-scenes update about what’s coming up for our games including John Carter, Star Trek Adventures, Achtung! Cthulhu, Mutant Chronicles, Infinity and Conan.

You’ll also have another chance to sign up for the Star Trek Adventures Living Playtest and a chance to grab a miniature of either Captain Kirk or Captain Picard!

We hope to see you there!

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Fantasy Flight Games to Co-Publish Siege of the Citadel

Hi everyone, Modiphius has some amazing news today – we have just announced that we’ll be working with the amazing team at Fantasy Flight Games on the Mutant Chronicles – Siege of the Citadel boardgame! They will be co-publishing the retail version of the game in to their enormous distribution network and also working on translations (though not for the Kickstarter). We have reached over $327,000 on Kickstarter and it’s now our most successful boardgame project! It’s a major milestone for our little family business and we wanted to thank you all for helping us get here.

With 3 expansions and 7 factions unlocked the game is playable for up 7 people. I’ve included the full contents of the Dark Legion Pledge below which gets you 102 minis (check out the sculpts here) and $409 value for just $149 and rising but first here’s the full press release we’re sharing:

MUTANT CHRONICLES: SIEGE OF THE CITADEL SECURES DEAL FOR CO-PUBLISHING, GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION, AND LOCALIZATION WITH FANTASY FLIGHT GAMES

LONDON, ENGLAND (October 5, 2016): Today Modiphius Entertainment, publisher of the Achtung! Cthulhu, Mutant Chronicles, Conan, Infinity, and John Carter of Mars roleplaying games, and Cabinet Entertainment (Conan the Barbarian, Kull of Atlantis, Solomon Kane, Mutant Chronicles, Mutant: Year Zero, Kult) announced a new partnership with Fantasy Flight Games for the global publishing, retail distribution, localization, and translation of the Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel miniaturesboard game.

In a joint statement issued by Fredrik Malmberg, president and CEO of Cabinet Entertainment and Chris Birch, publishing director of Modiphius Entertainment, “FFG’s global reach is unsurpassed in the hobby game industry and their expertise allows us the opportunity to focus on the game‘s design and development. We‘re thrilled to be working with them to bring Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadel to friendly local game shops everywhere.“

Mutant Chronicles: Siege of the Citadelhas currently raised more than $325,000 in a highly successful Kickstarter campaign with more than 2500 backers and two days to go. The retail version of Siege of the Citadel will be released worldwide after the delivery of the Kickstarter rewards, which are due to be shipped Q4 2017.

Siege of the Citadel, originally designed by Richard Borg and published by Target Games and Pressman Toys in the 1990s, was one of the first games of its kind to offer character development and the unique rotating Dark Legion player, among other groundbreaking ideas. Conceived by Sweden‘s gaming powerhouse Target Games, Siege of the Citadel was advertised on television in the US and hundreds of gamers still own much loved copies across the world. This new edition reboots the classic game with balanced and updated rules, 45 new sculpted minis, new double-sided tiles, new creatures, and an A-List design team of Richard Borg, Eric M. Lang and Kevin Wilson.

Here’s the contents of the Dark Legion Pledge for $149 which gets you 102 minis and $409 worth of unlocks so far.

Alternatively you can opt for the $69 pledge which gets you $109 value:

ESSEN & DRAGONMEET

If you’re at Essen Spiel next week remember we have a community party with free drinks on us on the Saturday night and we’d love to see you there where we’ll be talking about exciting news for next year! Find us in Hall 2, Stand A127 to collect your invite! We’ll be live casting the news at the party on Facebook so you can share in the buzz too if you miss out. Remember we’re doing free shipping during the convention – use the code MissenSpiel16 so you don’t miss out on the fun.

Remember tickets are on sale for Dragonmeet our big London (UK) gaming convention on Saturday December 3rd at the Novotel, Hammersmith – hope you’ll join us there for a day of boardgames, RPG’s, miniature wargames, seminars and much more!

Modiphius will lots on at Dragonmeet including signs up for Star Trek (so you can pick up one of our miniatures), plus demo’s of Star Trek, Siege of the Citadel, Infinity, Conan, Achtung! Cthulhu (with the launch of the living campaign), Kung Fu Panda and much more.

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